elios
join:2005-11-15
Springfield, MO
 ·Mediacom
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Re: In Verizon's best interest to get customers migrated..
true but i wouldnt want less then 1.5Mbps any way and dont know why any one would you cant really do any thing with it
i guess if all you do is check your e-mail then its fine but you can do with 56k
but yes maybe verizon should offer a 20-25 buck 1.5/128 plan
even a 30 buck 1.5/1.5 would be fine for most |
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Jodokast96
R.I.P Bassman442
Premium
join:2005-11-23
Erial, NJ
 ·Verizon Online DSL
1 edit | They're cheapest plan is $40 for 10/2. That's the price point they need to be at right now to get a return on deployment. Most people don't need that much speed, so if the offer a lower package, most would go with that. So the end up not making back the money they need. Right now it's cheaper for them to give more speed than offer lower, cheaper packages. |
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rebus9
join:2002-03-26
Tampa Bay
 ·Verizon FIOS
·RoadRunner Cable
1 edit | reply to elios
said by elios  :true but i wouldnt want less then 1.5Mbps any way and dont know why any one would you cant really do any thing with it Well, that depends on your point of view. This past weekend Road Runner had a rare (for us) outage that lasted almost all day Sunday.
My neighbor on FIOS gave me his wireless SSID and WEP key so I could use his connection while mine was down. He has 10/2 but with the (weak marginal) signal from 2 houses away, I could barely get 1.0 Mbps. Still, 1 megabit is like heaven when you have no other option, and my wife and I surfed the web just fine all day with no complaints.
Let's be real about this.
768k or 1.5 Mbps service is great for normal web & email users like our parents and co-workers. By "normal", I mean NOT rabid YouTube fans, P2P, Usenet, and other bandwidth hogs like most of us on these forums. We love our internet and are addicted to downloads. Normal users have no clue, and no desire, to download Terabytes of data each year.
I'd die on 3 Mbps DSL and my 7 Mbps Road Runner seems more inadequate each day. But I was perfectly happy on 1.0 Mbps when I limited myself to just web and email that day.
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